DNS Research Day and Edna Park Lecture 2024

Thursday, November 7, 2024
9:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. (ET)

9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Research Day 
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m: Edna Park Lecture

Chestnut Conference Centre
89 Chestnut St
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1R1 

Please join us for the 2024 Department of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) Research Day and Edna Park Lecture. 

This free full-day event will showcase trainee research; a presentation by Dr. Daniel Drucker, Senior Scientist, Sinai Health, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and also Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Peptides and Banting and Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology; and the delivery of the annual Edna Park Lecture from Dr. Eileen Kennedy, Professor, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, USA. Please note the Edna Park Lecture is a DNSAA event; alumni are welcome to register for the full-day or for the Edna Park Lecture only. 

Light refreshments and lunch will be served. Please specify any dietary restrictions in your registration.

Program:
9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks — Dr. Deborah O’ Connor, Professor and Chair, DNS
9:40 a.m. Keynote Speech: ""Next generation GLP-1 medicines-new mechanisms and indications" — Dr. Daniel Drucker, Senior Scientist, Sinai Health, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
10:40 a.m. Poster Presentation (Terrace Room) with Refreshments
11:40 a.m. Post Doctoral Oral Presentations
12:25 p.m. Lunch
1:25 p.m. Poster Presentations
2:25 p.m. Graduate Student Oral Presentations
4:05 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. Presentation of Oral and Poster Awards
5:00 p.m. Networking with Edna Park Speaker for graduate students plus refreshments 
6:00 p.m. Undergraduate Awards
6:30 p.m. Edna Park Lecture: Transforming Food Systems: What needs to be done? — Dr. Eileen Kennedy, Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University 

Parking is available in the underground garage located at 89 Chestnut Street. Daily rates apply. Early bird parking ($14) can be availed for those arriving between 5:00 AM and 9:00 AM and departing before 7:00 PM. Evening parking rates ($9) can be availed by those arriving after 5:00 PM and departing before 3:00 AM. 

Please kindly RSVP by October 24, 2024. Register on link: https://my.alumni.utoronto.ca/EdnaPark2024

If you are a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow and would like to present, please send your abstract to s.tahir@utoronto.ca by September 30, 2024. 

We hope to see you there!